Ecological Studies

Biocultural Adaptations in Human Communities

By: Holger Schutkowski

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Hardcover | 16 December 2005

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This book explores the relationship between cultural strategies and their biological outcomes, combining for the first time an ecosystems approach with cultural anthropological, archaeological and evolutionary behavioural concepts. Beginning with resource use and food procurement behaviour, the text examines major subsistence modes, the circumstances and dynamics of large-scale subsistence change, the effect of social differentiation on resource use and the effects of subsistence behaviour on population development and regulation.

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"This volume provides a detailed and thorough synthesis of the literature regarding the interplay between human populations and the characteristics and properties of their local environments, both physical and cultural. ... The volume is to be commended for its breadth and depth of detail and debate, and the publishers are to be congratulated for the inclusion of such a good quality and explicitly human volume within a broader ecological studies series." (Sonia R. Zakrzewski, Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 5 (2), 2007)

"Holger Schutkowski's important biocultural synthesis explores the duality between cultural strategies of human resource use and their biological ramifications in both past and present contexts. Indeed, Schutkowski's synthesis succeeds on a number of fronts and is an important contribution that students of human ecology and archaeology will no doubt heed for years to come. ... The book explores a wide diversity of case studies within a theoretical systems-based framework." (John Krigbaum, Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 35, 2008)

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History, Concepts and Prospects	p. 1
Human Ecological Concepts: A Brief Overview	p. 5
Environmental Determinism	p. 5
Possibilism	p. 6
Cultural Ecology	p. 7
Ecological Anthropology	p. 9
Human Adaptability	p. 11
Cultural Materialism	p. 11
Behavioural Ecology	p. 13
Global and Political Ecology	p. 15
Environmental History	p. 16
Humans as Parts of Ecosystems	p. 18
The General Framework	p. 18
Theoretical Considerations	p. 21
Human Ecology as a Biocultural Approach	p. 33
Scope and Aims	p. 35
Subsistence Modes	p. 43
Modes of Production	p. 47
Hunting and Gathering	p. 49
Horticulture	p. 51
Agriculture	p. 52
Pastoralism	p. 53
Strategies of Food Procurement	p. 54
Foragers	p. 55
Cultivators in the New Guinea Rain Forest: Tsembaga	p. 67
Cultivation and Livestock Farming in the Andean Highlands: Nunoa Quechua	p. 70
Pastoralists in Semiarid Zones: Karimojong	p. 75
Pre-Industrial Agriculture in European Temperate Climates	p. 81
Conclusion: Biocultural Adaptations to Food Procurement	p. 89
Subsistence Change	p. 103
Strategies of Subsistence Change	p. 109
Upper Pleistocene Foragers in Europe	p. 109
The Transition to Food Production	p. 113
Maize in North America	p. 124
Dependency, Continuity and Change	p. 128
A Transition Model	p. 134
Conclusion: Causes and Courses of Subsistence Change	p. 138
Resources and Social Organisation	p. 151
The Social Framework of Resource Utilisation	p. 154
Social Organisation of Subsistence in the European Early Middle Ages	p. 159
Reconstruction of Nutritional Patterns	p. 162
Biocultural Correlates of Differential Access to Resources	p. 165
Ecological Context	p. 165
Linking Dietary Patterns to Social Ranks	p. 167
Conclusion: Status-Dependent Resource Use	p. 178
Population Development and Regulation	p. 183
Populations and Carrying Capacity	p. 188
Mechanisms of Population Regulation	p. 194
Environment, Disease and Population	p. 195
Culture and Ecological Equilibrium	p. 202
Population Regulation - Myth or Reality?	p. 216
Subsistence, Change and Fertility	p. 225
Cultural Goals and Reproduction	p. 232
Conclusion: Subsistence and Population Structure	p. 239
Synthesis - Towards a Biocultural Human Ecology	p. 251
Introduction	p. 251
Subsistence and Social Structure	p. 254
Transitions	p. 259
Resources and Fitness	p. 261
Epilogue	p. 264
References	p. 267
Subject Index	p. 295
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